Business Transformation

With an appetite for technology, consumers have enthusiastically embraced the rapid pace of innovation into their modern day lives. For the face of business however this transition is not always so simple. The threat of disruption and cost can deter many organisations from making the shift – producing an increasing gap between technology and business consumer adoption.

It is paramount that we embrace technology as it evolves and use it to our advantage, to transition to a better way of achieving effective outcomes, in our day to day lives and in the way we do business.

The Business Transformation Maturity Model, detailed below, provides a framework to determine the maturity level of your organisation with clearly defined initiatives designed to transform your business into a market leader moving forward into the enterprise evolution.

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Inspired Achievers

Inspired Achievers recognise that the IT industry is rapidly evolving and understand the need to utilise advances in technology. They are motivated to shift the way they do business in order to streamline operations, free up resources, improve access to information and grow their organisation.

Industry Leaders

Industry Leaders are aware of the rapid advances in consumer technology and the need to evolve with it. They are actively seeking to bridge the business/consumer technology gap, unlock massive business value, break away from their competitors and take their organisation to the next level.

Ground Breakers

Already an Industry Leader, Ground Breakers are inspired to innovate, stay ahead of the curve and leverage the latest technology to propel their organisation into the enterprise evolution.

Maturity Level 1 – Transformation Initiatives:

Provide a powerful search capability on your public website to help users find the information and products that they need.
Provide an intuitive, relevant search solution across shared internal content on intranets and file servers.
Provide email, contacts, calendar and chat in the cloud so that employees have access to modern and innovative messaging from everywhere.
Display the position of your assets and locations on a dynamic map so that users have geospatial context to support decisions.
Provide online browser based file storage that supports both collaboration and enterprise security.
Replace outdated intranets with a more interactive, social and engaging platform that supports community and collaboration.
Replace support forms and product pages with interactive communities to engage customers and increase brand loyalty.

Maturity Level 2 – Transformation Initiatives:

Enrich your public website search capability to provide dynamic content such as maps, applications and real-time services.
Expand your internal search capability to include enterprise applications and secure content – all while maintaining strict access control and ease of use.
Provide browser based productivity and collaboration solutions that enable people to work together efficiently and across geographic boundaries.
Provide a web based mapping view of business intelligence and demographic information to support strategic applications.
Increase email security, availability and legal discovery by leveraging a powerful cloud based solution.
Implement a solution to monitor and engage with public social networking communities to identify opportunities and threats in the market.
Provide employees with the ability to create internal communities that cross functional and geographic boundaries to foster innovation.
Provide enterprise applications and collaboration to mobile devices for increased productivity and employee engagement.
Provide access and integration to enterprise social capability through existing desktop email and productivity software.

Maturity Level 3 – Transformation Initiatives:

Provide a geospatial "Standard Operating Environment" that is intuitive and scales across your entire organisation while conforming to enterprise security requirements.
Establish secure virtual "deal rooms" to collaborate and share files with internal and external resources.
Integrate existing core enterprise applications into your social platform to increase employee engagement and collaboration.
Use lessons learnt from game development to increase engagement of both internal and external applications.
Integration of Enterprise Search and Enterprise Geospatial solutions so that the geographic context of static content can be leveraged.
Integration of public facing communities and geospatial platforms so that your customers can contribute to the location based aspects of your operations.

Transformation Table

Transformation Table
The table below contains a list of common transformation criteria and corresponding solutions, all of which can be leveraged in the HEDLOC Innovation Centre.
Transformation Criteria
1. INSPIRED ACHIEVERS
Provide a powerful search capability on your public website to help users find the information and products that they need.
Provide an intuitive, relevant search solution across shared internal content on intranets and file servers.
Provide email, contacts, calendar and chat in the cloud so that employees have access to modern and innovative messaging from everywhere .
Provide a web based mapping view of business intelligence and demographic information to support strategic applications.
Provide online browser based file storage that supports both collaboration and enterprise security.
Replace outdated intranets with a more interactive, social and engaging platform that supports community and collaboration.
Replace support forms and product pages with interactive communities to engage customers and increase brand loyalty.
2. INDUSTRY LEADERS
Enrich your public website search capability to provide dynamic content such as maps, applications and real-time services.
Expand your internal search capability to include enterprise applications and secure content - all while maintaining strict access control and ease of use.
Provide browser based productivity and collaboration solutions that enable people to work together efficiently and across geographic boundaries.
Display the position of your assets and locations on a dynamic map so that users have geospatial context to support decisions.
Increase email security, availability and legal discovery by leveraging a powerful cloud based solution.
Implement a solution to monitor and engage with public social networking communities to identify opportunities and threats in the market.
Provide employees with the ability to create internal communities that cross functional and geographic boundaries to foster innovation.
Provide enterprise applications and collaboration to mobile devices for increased productivity and employee engagement.
Provide access and integration to enterprise social capability through existing desktop email and productivity software.
3. GROUND BREAKERS
Provide a geospatial "Standard Operating Environment" that is intuitive and scales across your entire organisation while conforming to enterprise security requirements.
Establish secure virtual "deal rooms" to collaborate and share files with internal and external resources.
Integrate existing core enterprise applications into your social platform to increase employee engagement and collaboration.
Use lessons learnt from game development to increase engagement of both internal and external applications.
Integration of Enterprise Search and Enterprise Geospatial solutions so that the geographic context of static content can be leveraged.
Integration of public facing communities and geospatial platforms so that your customers can contribute to the location based aspects of your operations with public social networking communities to identify opportunities and threats in the market.

	Cloud Computing		Information Accessibility		Mobility
	Social Business		Geospatial Enablement

Business Transformation

Business Transformation

Transforming business into the enterprise evolution.

Business Transformation

Transformation Table